I missed all but five fasts last Ramadan, and if this sounds like a shocking confession, you might want to try a survey of women to...
Ramadan 2013 Posts Third Night of Ramaḍān Allah, the Al-Mighty, says what can be interpreted to mean: Surat al-Baqarah – The Cow (002) 254. You who...
Ramadan 2013 Posts Second Night of Ramaḍān Allah, the Al-Mighty, says what can be interpreted to mean: Surat al-Baqarah – The Cow (002) 158. Safa and...
Ramadan 2013 Posts The Qurʾān is not a storybook of wondrous tales and ancient fables, isolated from the realities and complexities of real life. Each verse, in fact,...
Preserved in the Qur’an are private conversations between Our Master and His Servants. These were the conversations of the prophets and the pious – of Mary,...
“Do not ask me about that which I have left [unspecified], for verily the nations before you were destroyed by their excessive questioning and their disagreeing...
This is Part #2 of a multipart post: You can find Part 1 here Step 2: Sentence structure – Placement of Words in an Ayah: a – Understand the main...
The first apartment where my husband and I lived had six stories, and we lived on the sixth floor. I remember this clearly because in the...
The Qurʾān is not a storybook of wondrous tales and ancient fables, isolated from the realities and complexities of real life. Each verse, in fact, each letter is...
This is Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s story in visual form. The artist Christopher Towne is a young anti-war activist. He blogs here. Towne has given Muslimmatters.org exclusive permission...